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Flip phones
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2018–2025), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Flip phones, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Elderly mother finds the flip phone too hard to use2025-07-22
- Texting and web browsing on the flip phone were terrible and hard to use2024-02-05
- Navigating with a D-pad and typing with T9 is awful to use2022-05-06
- Typing text messages on a flip phone is slow and painful2020-01-01
- Flip phones take over a second to respond after pressing a button2019-03-28
- Flip phone made texting difficult and the camera was worthless2018-10-16